Improvement in milk-pail stools



NrTEn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARY A. SPRAGUE, OF CANFIELD, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN MILK-PAIL STOOLS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 196,396, dated October23, 1877 application filed March 13, 1877. i v

i To all whom it may concern 'Be it known that I, MARY A. SPRAGUE, ofCanfield, in the county of Mahoning and State of Ohio, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Milk-Pail Stools, of which thefollowing is a specification:

The primary object of my invention is to furnish a device wherebymilk-pails are kept from contact with the dirt of the stable orbarn-yard. I also, by providing means for attaching the milk-pail andits supportingstool together at pleasure, permit the milkmaid to carryboth pail and stool from place to place by the bail of the milk-pail.The pail is readily detachable from its supporting-stool.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents a view, inperspective, of my milk-pail stool; and Fig. 2, a perspective of thesupporting-stool, the milk-pail being detached.

The supporting-stoolAis of any construction or material suitable for thepurpose. In the example shown, it consists of a skeleton of metal, withthe usual supporting-legs. Upon this stool the milk-pail B rests, and isattached thereto by means of spring-gripes C a., which rise from thestool and seize over the top of the bail. In the drawings, andpreferably for the purposes of my invention, these gripes are shown asspiral springs, with gripes a, which seize over the rim of the pail.This form of spring-gripe is easily disengaged by the hand from thevpail when it is desired to separate the two for obvious purposes.. Imay, however, use any equivalent form of spring.

The device, as a whole, is carried from place to place by the bail ofthe milk-pail.

When the milking is inished the gripes are disengaged from the pail.

By this device the bottom of the milk-can or pail is keptY perfectlyclean, and all trouble of separately carrying a stool is avoided, bothbeing carried as one 5 and the pail being ele-V vated, the milkmaidsdress does not become soiled. y Y' The spring-gripes C, it will beobserved, are capable of extension to grasp a tall or short bucket, andthat at any point on its rim, no other fasteningy being used other thanthe hooks a.. Any ordinary milk-pail or common bucket may be used, andsuch bucket need not be of the same diameter as the stool. It may begreater or less without aiiecting the clampingfunction ofthe elastic andextensible gripes.

I claiml. A stool for milk-pails, consisting of the support A and theextensible spring-gripes C a, attached to said support, for use asdescribed.

2. rlhe combination of the pail B, supporting-stool A, and spring-gripesC a, as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

' MARY A. SPRAGUE.

Witnesses HANNAH VAN HYNING, IRVIN GORLL.

